Alexander Wagner a écrit : > pgeorges schrieb: > > Good Morning! > > > I added the possibility to play on internet with Scid > > (freechess.org aka FICS). > > Just checked out that one and it looks quite good already. > Still some suggestions: > > - Find opponent: did you try that on some peak hour of fics? > Say something like 9:00 pm CET? IMHO the buttonlist is not > that useable there. Maybe a list like the "game list" > woul be more suitable? Yes, it is not good. Jin or Babaschess are far better. > > Probably the "seek" lines should be droped from the output > window as they clutter all other informations. (The point > I do not like in xboard.) > > - "Games" button should work similarily to "Find opponent", > so one could easily observe a game relayed on the server. Games is a raw output of played games (standard chess). I think some commands should be user configurable (like with Babaschess). The user interface is far from perfect as I mainly concentrated on Pocket PC's one. > > - For "observe" one should probably read the whole game from > the start and not just the current position as starting > FEN. > I found no easy way to do this. FICS is an human readable protocol, not easily parsed. If I asked for the moves from the beginning I don't know when I will read them on the socket, I am not sure some other info will not slip in between, and I don't know when moves list will be complete. I guess this is why Jin don't get the moves as Scid... > - Observing multiple games Or: how to fetch a "life" > tournament relayed via the server could also be of some > interest. > I will enhance the interface later, but I consider that on PC there are maybe better ones (Jin) and I wanted first to fill a hole on Pocket PC.
More important you will note that I did not add Timeseal support as this is closed source protocol (to prevent chess players from cheating !?). So if anyone has contact about this feature (Timeseal), I am interested. Pascal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
